FOX News puts mobile DSNG to the test
The news organization has deployed the RAS StealthRay DSNG antenna system on its ElectionLink SUVs to cover the U.S. Democrat and Republican presidential primary races....
Newseum to open with modern news studios
ABC’s ‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos’ will move its production home to the Newseum in the first half of 2008....
Crispin names Mood as COO
Rodney Mood has served as CTO at Crispin since 2005....
Commission OKs DIRECTV transfer of control to Liberty Media
The FCC decided that allowing the transfer from News Corp. to Liberty Media served the public interest....
Uplinker converts Super Bowl XLII HD world feed frame rate with FRC-7000
A total of 14 international broadcasters relied on the world feed of the game from TV2GO...
Hitachi enhances SK-HD1000 studio, field production cameras
Hitachi has upgraded the performance of its SK-HD1000 camera to 60dB HDTV signal-to-noise ratio at F10.0 and a resolution of 1100 horizontal TV lines....
Aviation Research Group/U.S. offers safety audit standards for helicopters
The audit includes standards that apply to electronic newsgathering (ENG) helicopters....
RF Central to introduce RFX-CMT II camera-mounted transmitters
Available for 2GHz and 5.8GHz band operation, the new camera-back transmitters come standard with SD support but are software upgradeable to HD....
Tektronix offers new SD, HD waveform monitors, rasterizers
The WFM4000 and WFM5000 value waveform monitors and WVR4000 and WVR5000 rasterizers operate on an industry-standard 12V battery and are designed for field deployment....
SISLink, Intelsat form alliance to offer HD-ready SNG
The companies are jointly launching a new HD-ready video delivery service of satellite newsgathering applications in the United States....
Avid DNxHS to be first SMPTE VC-3-compliant codec, company says
The SMPTE approved the VC-3, based on the submission of the Avid DNxHD codec, after a two-year testing and validation process....
Warner Bros. installs 90 Dalet workstations for ‘The TMZ Show’
The Dalet News Suite provides TMZ journalists and editors with a fully integrated newsroom and tapeless news production system....
Nucomm COFDM transmitters, receivers overcome NYC frequency congestion for Truth spots
The producers of five anti-tobacco spots shot in Manhattan relied on Nucomm camera-back transmitters and diversity receivers....
WSD prototype failure shows devices not ready for primetime, NAB says
e National Association of Broadcasters said last week’s power failure of a white space device prototype “vindicates” concerns about interference....
Open government advocates object to Bush funding shift
The Society of Professional Journalists and 42 other advocates of open government say the administration’s attempt to shift OPEN Government Act funding to the Department of Justice runs counter to the intent of a new law to strengthen the FOIA. ...
